Heavy Bones were a highly musical and dynamic 1990's heavy Rock/Metal band more reminiscent of the classic rock diverse writing styles of legendary '70's rock greats like Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and Queen.

Heavy Bones reigns from Hollywood, California and was formed in 1990 by lead vocalist Joel Ellis as it was to be his hoghy; anticipated Warner Bros. sequel effort to the E.M.I./Capital Recs band Cats In Boots.

Joel recruited guitarist extraordinaire Gary Hoey and his good friend and Sunset Strip cohort Frankie Banali. The band later held bassist auditions and brought on a bassist from Philadelphia named Rex Tennyson who showed up with and enormous mop of blond hair dragging a severely beat to hell Fender bass which immediately charmed the band and won him his spot in the band.

Gary and Joel immediately recognized a very strong writing and song composition bond between them. The two could hardly be in a room together for 10 mins without a song taking shape between them, and bringing Frankie's amazing dynamic and musical drumming qualities into the mix resulted in a creative force comparable to the stuff of legends. This musical chemistry became the magic that we now know as Heavy Bones.

Joel's original offer from Warner Music VP Michael Ostin and music attorney Peter Lopez evolved into a specialized deal for the band that took shape on the Warner Bros. Reprise label which also boasted the great talents of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Beach Boys, and Lou Reed.

The band signed an impressive deal with Reprise in 1990 and began work composing and producing themselves in pre-production. A high end demo recording was then made together with engineering great Bill Kennedy at A&M Studios in Hollywood. The band eventually joined forces with producer Richie Zito (Cheap Trick, Heart) and Jimbo Barton (Queensryche) to create the band's musical masterpiece debut release.

Although the band had a very short lived run with moderate international sales, they managed to reach high ground almost immediately upon release of their debut effort by reaching #1 radio single status and top requested video raves on MTV with the first single 4AMTM, a very sassy heavy groovelaiden golden nugget of a song. Their second single Turn It On was featured in a 1992 Summer Olympics promotional special with Coca-Cola which distributed over 90 million copies of the single worldwide.

Although the bands launch was so electrifying, it became immediately limited due to no radio promotion or video follow-up for the single causing the bands management to miss its mark while the timing for a band this musical was thwarted by the massive Grunge scene take over of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden in the US. Another management blunder was in the failure to send the band on tour into the previously succeeded venues of Europe and Japan between Joel's Cats and Frankie's Rioting days before Heavy Bones.

Unfortunately as a result, this band's debut was the only released work by this incredibly talented group of performers.

Over the years since the band disbanded Heavy Bones' popularity and cult legion of HB fans world wide as risen to great numbers and a dizzying demand for the band to reunite and give it's fans another record and live shows.

Word has been circulating between original members Joel, Frankie, and Gary over recent weeks of a highly potential reunion with Joel's musically driven son Joey Angel stepping into the bass position with the band for a reunion of sorts although to what degree is still unknown. Confirmation of the reunion has yet to be officially released to the press.

Notes:
This entire production was completed in Hollywood, CA at A&M and The Music Grinder Studios with the exception of 4AMTM being mixed at Electric Lady Land in Studios New York City.

Even though Tennyson is listed as the bassist, Scott Tunis bassist of Frank Zappa, played all the bass tracks on the album [1]; Tennyson appeared in their one and only music video, 4:AM T.M.

The record is longer in print and is not available at this time for sales, although the band has stated it's interest to re-issue the CD at some time in the near future. In the meantime, an non-downloadable MP3 version of the Heavy Bones record can be found at www.joelellismusic.com